Outlook Traveller: A Greek Ship From The Age Of Plato Still Rests Beneath The Black Sea
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Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the coll…
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culture · Ancient Greek philosopher (c. 428-347 BC) · philosopher · epigrammatist · poet · writer · philosopher of law · also Plato
Born 427 BC · Died 347 BC · Q859
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2026· 3 entries
The Times of India: Quote of the day by Plato: “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is…” — the ancient lesson about ch
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standardmedia.co.ke: Plato's philosopher king, African literature and the season of grand promises
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘Second renaissance’: tech uncovers ancient scroll secrets of Plato and co
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2017· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 23 mai 2017.”
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2009· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 9 novembre 2009.”
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2003· 1 entry
“Meist zitiert als: "Diejenigen, die zu klug sind, sich in der Politik zu engagieren, werden dadurch bestraft, dass sie von Leuten regiert werden, die dümmer sind als sie selbst." - Siehe Peer Steinbrück#2003.”
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1981· 1 entry
“Platon ist mein Freund und Aristoteles auch, meine liebste Freundin aber ist die Wahrheit" - Isaac Newton: Leitspruch, zitiert in Newton on the continent / Henry Guerlac. - Ithaca, N.Y.& London: Cornell University Press, 1981, S. 41”
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1962· 1 entry
“The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans”
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1924· 1 entry
“[Citazione errata] Attribuita nel film Black Hawk Down, non trova riscontri nelle sue opere. È una frase di George Santayana, da Soliliquies in England, 1924.”
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1921· 1 entry
“Citazione "attribuita volgarmente a Platone", come menzionato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, Milano, 1921, p. 38.”
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1914· 1 entry
“Nur die Toten haben das Ende des Krieges gesehen." - "only the dead have seen the end of war" aus George Santayanas Soliloquies in England, 1914-1918 wurde von General Douglas MacArthur in seiner Abschiedsrede in West Point am 12. Mai 1962 fälschlich als "ominous words of Plato" zitiert. Siehe auch http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm”
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1903· 2 entries
“("ἐροῦσι δὲ τάδε, ὅτι οὕτω διακείμενος ὁ δίκαιος μαστιγώσεται, στρεβλώσεται, δεδή[362a]σεται, ἐκκαυθήσεται τὠφθαλμώ, τελευτῶν πάντα κακὰ παθὼν ἀνασχινδυλευθήσεται καὶ γνώσεται ὅτι οὐκ εἶναι δίκαιον ἀλλὰ δοκεῖν δεῖ ἐθέλειν." - el.wikisource.org Πολιτεία/Β, vgl. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet (1903) perseus.tufts.edu)”
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“("τῆς δὲ ζημίας μεγίστη τὸ ὑπὸ πονηροτέρου ἄρχεσθαι, ἐὰν μὴ αὐτὸς ἐθέλῃ ἄρχειν: ἣν δείσαντές μοι φαίνονται ἄρχειν, ὅταν ἄρχωσιν, οἱ ἐπιεικεῖς," - Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet (1903) perseus.tufts.edu)”
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1871· 1 entry
“155d, The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3, 1871, p. 377”
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1828· 1 entry
“Die größte Strafe aber ist, von Schlechteren regiert zu werden, wenn einer nicht selbst regieren will; und aus Furcht vor dieser scheinen mir die Rechtschaffenen zu regieren, wenn sie regieren." - Politeia I 347c, Übersetzung Friedrich Schleiermacher 1828 S. 107 books.google”
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